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“What’s surprising more than anything is there isn’t more than two leadership candidates,” says Bob Murray with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

“We’re not hearing any names being rumoured, nobody is really talking, which I think is somewhat dangerous to the party.”

Campaign events have also seemed few and far between. But one expert believes laying low might be part of the overall NDP strategy.

“The strategic calculation is very much that, the PCs are going to spend most of the summertime eating themselves alive, let them do that into their own convention and once the voting starts…at the PC convention in September, then the NDP can start to get the momentum,” Murray adds.